Portable rail shoe



July 14, 1925. 1,545,524

R1 SCHEUCHZER 'PORTABLE RAIL VSHOE lfiled Aug. 23, 1924 f" f f .ff/Z tarn @y Patented July 14, 1925.

UNITED STAT-Es ROBERT SCHIEU'CI'IZER7 .0F ST. LOUIS, MISSORI;

PORTABLE RAIL" SHOE.

Application 1aed August 2s, 1924. seriali No. 73eme. i

To all @07mm t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ROBERT SOHEUGHZER, a citizen of'Switzerland, residing in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Portable Bail Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

' My invention relates to portable rail shoes, and, has for its object .the provision of a device of the character which is a distinct and practical improvement to `ove-rcome certain practical objections to, and defects in, vchock appliances'lto be mounted upon railway railsto be engaged by oneof the wheelsof a moving car Vrolled thereupon to retard the movement of the car by nonturning of the wheel effected by setting up an abraded sliding movement thereunder to arrest movement of thev car and prevent sudden terrific shocks to cars being bumped together during switching operations, thus minimizingdaniage to goods carried within the cars affected.

l/Vith the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel features of construction, arrangement and combination of parts and their equivalents hereinafter more fully described and finally pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, wherein like characters of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views:

Fig. 1, is a plan view ofmy improved rail shoe.

Fig. 2, is a view in perspective of the rail shoe embodying the features of and constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 3, is a side elevation thereof.

Fig. 4, is a front elevation thereof.

Fig. 5, is asectional view taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

In carrying out the aim of my invention, I employ a suitable base member 1 of such width as to entirely cover the top of a rail head. The base member l is provided along its inner edge with a single flange 2 which extends from the front edge thereof to al suitable point short of the rear end of the base and is adapted to engage the inner edgev ber 3 having a face l with a curvature conforming in contour to the peripheral face of a car wheel. The forward end of 5 of abutment member 3 is directed downwardly and forwardly at a suitable angle and is provided at its forward end with a suitable foot `6 which lies upon thebase 1 and is secured thereto by means of suitable fasten ing devices 7. The rear end of the abutment member 3 engagesthe base lk adjacent the rear end of the fla-nge 2 and vis secured 4to the base l by means of suitable -fastening means 8. Thus it `will lbe seenfthat the wheel abutment is not integral with the base 1, 'but suitably Vfixed thereto.

A suitable `face plate 9Tis mounted upon the curved abutment member 3 and itis of the same curvature as the abutment -member 3. `The, plate 9 is secured to the upperface of the abutment member by means of suitable fastening devices l0, so that should the plate become worn or disiigured beyond use, a new face plate can be eas'ilyaixed to the abutment :member 3 after removingthe old one. The rear end of the curved face plate 9 extends beyond the rear end ofthe abutment plate 3 and engages the upper face of the base member l and coming to a feather edge 11 therewith. The base member l has its upper face beveled from the feather edge connection ll with the face plate to its rear edge, thus providing a very slight inclined surface 12. The Side edges of the rear sloping end of the base member 1 is also slightly beveled, as at 13, as shown in Fig. 1.

The inner face `of the base l and the inner faces of the rear ends of the abutment member 3 and face plate 9 all lie flush with the inner face of the rail head soas not to interfere with the fla-nge of the rail when the rail comes into contact with the face plate of the abutment member 3. The face plate 9 preferably has its upper face 14 beveled o-r inclined so that its inner edge will be narrower than its outer edge, as shown in detail in Fig. 5, sopas toaccommodate the coming in Contact therewith.

From the foregoing description,V it is evident that when the rail shoe is mounted upon a rail in advance of a car that is standing still and a swiftly moving car is switched on to the track of the standing car, that just as soon as the car'wheel comes f in contact with the `curved abutment member of the rail shoe that the wheel will be slight- 1y elevated and supported thereby instead of the rail and thus cause the. carto slide or skid on the rails instead of roll, thereby slackening the momentum of the car suiiiciently to cause the moving car to strike the4A standing car gently instead of with a severe crash or bump. As freight cars very often havey to be reloaded inthe yardsdue to the fact that switchmen have caused cars during switching movements to be bumped together with too great a force, it is evident that by the employment of my rail shoe the bumping of cars together with great force and shock during switching operations is eliminated by causing the cars to take on a sliding or skidding movement instead -of a rolling movement.

The many advantages of the herein described invention will readily suggest themselves to thoseskilled in the art to `which it appertains. i a

I do not wish to be understood as having limited myself to the details of construction shown and described, but desire to have a it understood that the invention I have shown in the drawings is merely illustrative, as 1t 1s manifest that varlous minor changes maybe made 1n the exact construction and particular arrangement of partswithout departing from the spirit of my inventi0n,.

Vhat I claim is: s

l. In a rail shoe structure, abase, a flange formed at the inner edge lof said base, an abutment member fixed to said base having a curved rear section fixed at its rear end to ,the base and having a forwardly and downwardly directed front section, a foot extending from the front section fixed to the base, and a curved face plate fixed to the curved rear section of the abutment member.

In a rail shoe structure, a base havingl a sloping rear end, al flange directed downwardly from the inner edge of the base and extending from the front cdge of the base to a point short of the rear edge of the base, an abutment member having a curved rear section fixed at its rear end to the base adjacent the rear edge of the iange, va forward section directedforwardly and downwardly from the forward edge of the curved rear section,` a foot extending from the lower end ofthe forward section and fixed to said base, a face plate fixed to said curved rear section of the abutment member, the rear end of said'face plate extending be-y yond the rear edge of the curvedv rear section'andhaving a feather rear edge in contact with the base member at the forward end of the sloping rear end of the base ,ROBERT somarici-IZER. s 

